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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (60942)	9/28/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>...fight common foes, and after victory, fight amongst yourselves.< Yes. Christy Todd Whitman, Bob Dole and many others who represent the GOP establishment should heed your advice and do all they can to promote the coalition, including the values of its core constituents until such a time as the "coalition" acheives victory. They cannot well hold together a coalition by insulting the fundamental values of its constituents. Such values should form the overarching and compelling principle around which coalition members muster despite all other differences. But I sincerely think no such principle exists for SCs within the GOP and that most SCs remain in the GOP simply from wimpish fear of a Democrat victory. GOP players likely think it impossible to be victorious while embracing the SC social agenda (which is why they work so diligently to reject it even before victory is acheived). On the other hand SCs likely think any so called GOP victory without the principles undergirding their social agenda is tantamount to a defeat at the hands of liberals (and it is). So then SCs effectively have two enemies against which they must war: Democrats who now have effectively neutralised the Republican Party, and Democrats within the Democrat Party. SCs simply cannot win this sort of war. Any victory that is realised here will be won by Democrats, whether they call themselves Democrats or Republicans. If SCs remain in the GOP they will spend their efforts and cash to perpetuate their own defeat. They can assure victory by providing themselves alternative institutions, thereby preserving and promoting their own values. It can be done, and very well. >If the liberals would pursue a "divide and conquer strategy, why play into their hands?< Because to fight them within the GOP is to fight on their own terms. You see, the GOP rolls over for the liberals far too easily to be relied upon. We have seen this too many times. The GOP is no comrade with which one can prudently enter a battle. It is better that SCs establish their own ground to rule and defend with dignity. I literally am not anguished (at least not for myself) when I hear of children shooting themselves in the public school system. I literally do not anguish when public school children get hooked on sex and drugs. I do not care at all to pressure school officials and teachers to raise school grades. And when I read that in comparisons of America with other developed countries American students score near the very bottom on academic tests, I honestly do not fret in the least. When the newest and goofiest education experiments waft this way from looney California, I just ignore them, or read about them with a laugh. You see, I have my own educational institution, and now based upon my own experience I know it is by far superior to anything the liberals can produce. Now I would like to see similar institutions extending to the college level and beyond, eventually extending right into professional American life. In fact what I would really like to see are many such educational institutions that focus expressly upon law and politics, to train young minds to effectively influence the legal and political system for good. This is the sort of thing SCs need to support, instead of wasting time and money placing silly hopes in the GOP.